Greece

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis reiterated on Wednesday his commitment to a sincere dialogue with Turkey and stressed that with its actions Ankara has undermined the unity of the NATO. In his online speech at the 66th Annual Session of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly on Wednesday, Mitsotakis said that Greece’s call …

Alexia Evert, deputy mayor of Athens, member of conservative ruling party New Democracy and offspring of a well-known politicians’ family, called the members of Communist KKE “cockroaches and rodents.” Today, the mayor of Athens Costas Bakoyannis asked her resignation. Evert commented on social media under a picture of KKE members …

In his memoirs, “A Promised Land,” former Us President Barack Obama makes also some reference to the Greek debt crisis and the way in which the major European powers chose to deal with the situation. In his memoir that was released on Tuesday, Obama writes: “I noticed that they rarely …

Greece’s health authorities announced on Wednesday 3,209 new coronavirus cases and another 60 deaths in the last 24 hours. The number of intubated Covid-19 patients hit one more record reaching 480. Total cases have reached 82,034 and death toll 1,288. Media reported today that only 18% of the ICU beds …

Health Minister Vassilis Kikilias presented on Wednesday Greece’s national plan for the vaccination of the population with the vaccine against Covid-19. The vaccines will be those supplied via the European Union that will distribute them to member states at the same time. Vaccines supply via the EU that has signed …

The tram service from and to Syntagma Squarein downtown Athens will resume its operation on Friday, November 20, 2020, the management company STASY said in a statement. The service has been suspended since October 2018 due to deformation of the concrete covering the bed of Ilissos river The resumption of …

A Greek candlemaker has come up with a novel way of highlighting the need to wear a mask to curb the spread of the new coronavirus; putting them on his Santa candles. Alexios Gerakis in the northern town of Thessaloniki has made decorative candles featuring Father Christmas, with a big …

Greece’s National Meteorological Service and the National Observatory of Athens have issued a warning on the gradual weather deterioration with heavy rainfalls and thunderstorms, accompanied by powerful winds and local hail fall. The barometric low is forecast to especially affect the south of Greece and particularly the islands. The weather …

Ten nurses from hospitals in Crete will voluntarily go to Thessaloniki to help their colleagues in the battle against the Covid-19. The nurses are specialized in Intensive Care Units. Nurses Vassiliki, Olympia, Euangelia, Artemis, Katerina, Malamatina, Efrosyni, Anthi, Chrysoula and Penelope will start working at “Ippokrateio” hospital tomorrow, Thursday. Two …

A rare hand-written gospel in Greek is on its way to being returned to the monastery it was stolen from in 1917 by its latest owner, a museum in Washington, DC, the Metropolis of Drama said. One of the oldest extant hand-written gospels, written in Greek between the end of …